 Frank Hurley 1907 to 1950sCollectors' List 120 2006 |
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110 Remaining Portion of a Wall... ...of Cloth Hall, Ypres, 1917. Toned silver gelatin photograph, titled and dated "Nov 1917" in pencil verso, 36.1 x 26.5cm. Handling creases, dents, cracks to corners. Illustrated with caption in Ennis, Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas, 2002, p40: "The ruins of the Cloth Hall during the Third Battle of Ypres. A view through a cloister window." |
$11,000 |
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111 [Looking through a Ruined Cathedral... ...Window onto a Battlefield Cemetery], 1917. Toned silver gelatin photograph, small format, annotated "Cemetery of Vlamertinge" in pencil in another hand verso, 20.2 x 15.4cm. Old creases and stains verso. Illustrated and captioned in Ennis, Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas, 2002, p41 and captioned in Millar, From Snowdrift to Shellfire, 1984, p148: "A view of the military section of the graveyard in the village of Vlamertinge, near Ypres, with Lieut G.H. Wilkins, M.C. in middle distance, 3 October, 1917." Smaller version of item 112. |
$6,600 |
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112 [Looking through a Ruined Cathedral... ...Window onto a Battlefield Cemetery], 1917. Toned silver gelatin photograph, large format, 36.7 x 27.6cm. Handling creases, dents, cracks to corners. Illustrated and captioned in Ennis, Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas, 2002, p41; O'Keefe, Hurley at War, 1986, p78 and captioned in Millar, From Snowdrift to Shellfire, 1984, p148: "A view of the military section of the graveyard in the village of Vlamertinge, near Ypres, with Lieut G.H. Wilkins, M.C. in middle distance, 3 October, 1917." |
$13,500 |
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113 Chateau Wood, Ypres Salient 1917. Toned silver gelatin photograph, titled and dated "Oct 29 1917" in pencil verso, 27.3 x 36.5cm. Handling creases, dents, cracks to corners, foxing verso. Variant image illustrated with caption in O'Keefe, Hurley at War, 1986, p67: "In the rain-sodden fields of Flanders, duckboards - wooden planks placed over the ground - were indispensable to the movement of men, animals and materials. Moving along them in bad conditions, troops would hold onto the man in front; to leave their security could mean death." |
$9,900 |
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114 Australian Battery Hauling Gun... ...Forward near Zonnebeke, 1917. Toned silver gelatin photograph, titled and dated "Oct 4 1917" in pencil verso, 23.9 x 38.4cm. Handling creases, dents, cracks to corners, foxing verso. Illustrated with caption in O'Keefe, Hurley at War, 1986, p61: "Australian 1st Division Pioneers digging out a gun belonging to the 104 Howitzer Battalion, 1 October." |
$9,900 |
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115 Scene in the Trenches [troops with Lewis gun], 1917. Toned silver gelatin photograph, 24.8 x 36.2cm. Missing portion to upper left edge, handling creases, slight foxing. As titled in Hurley's exhibition of war photographs held at the Kodak Salon in Sydney in 1919. |
$8,800 |
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116 [Wilkins looking through a... ...Ruined Cathedral Window, Ypres], 1917. Toned silver gelatin photograph, 29 x 37.8cm. Repaired tears and creases to margins, foxing verso. |
$8,800 |
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117 [First Australian Flying Corps... ...in the Air and in Descent over Palestine], 1917. Silver gelatin photograph, 18.5 x 28.3cm. Handling creases, pin hole to upper left corner. Illustrated with caption in O'Keefe, Hurley at War, 1986, p104: "… It did not take Hurley long to get involved in aerial photography. On 16 February he flew over Turkish lines, an event he took with equanimity, being entirely carried away with the romance and excitement of the flying experience." |
$5,500 |
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118 Off on Bombing Raid... ...in [Zonnebeke], 1917. Silver gelatin photograph, titled with incorrect location "Palestine" in pencil verso, 18.1 x 30.3cm. Handling creases, chips to edges. This photograph appears in the composite image illustrated with caption in O'Keefe, Hurley at War, 1986, p51: "The classic World War 1 'over the top' picture and detail from it. In fact this was a composite photograph of the action at Zonnebeke in October. Hurley felt such pictures necessary, as 'to get pictures one must go into the hottest and even then come out disappointed. To get war pictures of striking interest and sensation is like attempting the impossible.' In his diary he described the event that his picture reconstructed." |
$5,500 |
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119 Operating Theatre, 1st Aus C.C.S. [Casualty Clearing Station] at Outtersteine, 1917. Toned silver gelatin photograph, titled and dated "Nov 23rd 1917" in pencil verso, 25.6 x 36.2cm. Handling creases, chips to edges, slight foxing verso. Illustrated with caption in O'Keefe, Hurley at War, 1986, p33: "Cramped conditions in an underground dressing station during the Battle for Menin Road. Not all reached there for treatment." |
$7,700 |
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